25 letters found
- 446 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 12 and about Thursday, 15 May 1884.
- in note 5:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes exhibited Le bois sacré (The sacred grove): see letter 483, n. 2.
- in translation:
... work thus, and I’m in complete agreement with you in appreciating his talent. Puvis de Chavannes
...s with you — I can immerse myself in a Puvis de Chavannes, and yet that doesn’t alter the fact th...
- 483 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Thursday, 5 and about Thursday, 26 February 1885.
- in note 2:
...reproductions referred to hereafter. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Le bois sacré, cher aux arts et aux...
- in translation:
...eresting paintings from the Salon No. Among other things, of that composition by Puvis de Chavannes.
- 578 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 24 February 1888.
- in note 3:
...also dealt on his own account in work by Puvis de Chavannes and others, and, one of the few people to...
- 602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.
- in note 22:
...Reid went to Scotland with a painting by Puvis de Chavannes that he had bought at Durand-Ruel’s in ...
- 611 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 20 May 1888.
- in note 11:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Hope, c. 1872 (Paris, Musée d’Orsay). Ill. 315. Van Gogh saw this work ...
- in translation:
...h, because we’ll need it. That Hope of Puvis de Chavannes is such a reality. There’s an art in th...
- 632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
- in note 18:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, The beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1869 (Birmingham, The University ...
- in translation:
... John the Baptist by Puvis? I find it marvellous and as much the MAGICIAN as Eugène Delacroix.Puvis
- 655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
- in note 10:
The two portraits by Puvis de Chavannes are Portrait of a man (Eugène Benon), 1882 (private collecti...
- in translation:
Puvis knows that very well, and when he, so wise and so just, decided to descend good-naturedly into ...
- 683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
- in note 19:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Pleasant land, c. 1882 (New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Mary Gertr...
- in translation:
...ll think even more often of beautiful works by Puvis de Chavannes: Pleasant land and so many others.
- 694 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
- in note 11:
Possibly a reference to Puvis de Chavannes’ painting Hope, which Van Gogh had previously associated...
- 695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
- in note 5:
...etter 694 to Theo, possibly referring to Puvis de Chavannes’ painting Hope. See letter 694, n. 11.
- 732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.
- in translation:
...heory at least, knows what Delacroix and Puvis de Chavannes are all about, and who’s very curious t...
- 743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
- in translation:
...ions can, with a little good will, be considered as amply prevalent. See Puvis de Chavannes’ Hope.
- in note 24:
For Puvis de Chavannes’s Hope, see letter 611, n. 11.
- 763 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 28 April 1889.
- in note 7:
Lesbos is a reference to Puvis de Chavannes’s painting Pleasant land; see letter 683, n. 19....
- in translation:
...peaks of love and it’s as beautiful as Puvis de Chavannes’ Lesbos, where there were women beside ...
- 765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
- in note 12:
For Puvis de Chavannes’s Hope, see letter 611, n. 11.
- in translation:
...in a cemetery demonstrating more clearly the existence of that Hope that Puvis de Chavannes painted.
- 766 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 2 May 1889.
- in note 4:
Read: ‘Puvis de Chavannes’.
- in translation:
...there’s the means to live in it, the proof Puvis de C., Degas and others. I’m sure that if you wa...
- 768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
- in note 4:
Theo had written about Puvis de Chavannes and Degas (not about Delacroix, as Vincent writes here). Se...
- in translation:
Ah, what you said about Puvis and Delacroix is darned right, those fellows have well demonstrated wha...
- 819 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 November 1889.
- in note 11:
...e, see letter 792, n. 8. In the end, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Albert Bartholomé and Louis Forain ...
- in translation:
... wall space. This year they’ve invited Puvis de Chavannes, Bartholomé, Cézanne, Dubois-Pillet, Fo...
- 820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.
- in translation:
And then here there’s Puvis de Chavannes.
- 823 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
- in translation:
...Pre-Raphaelites did this much better, and then Puvis and Delacroix are much healthier than those Pre...
- 829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
- in note 14:
For Puvis de Chavannes’s Portrait of a man (Eugène Benon) and Portrait of a woman (Maria CantacuzÃ...
- in translation:
.... As to figure, the portrait of a man by Puvis de Chavannes has always remained an ideal for me, an o...
- RM19 To Willemien van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Wednesday, 21 May 1890.
- in note 6:
...ier, showing the work of artists such as Puvis de Chavannes, Carolus-Duran and Rodin. See exhib. cat....
- 875 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
- in translation:
... I see or think I see a calm there à la Puvis de Chavannes, no factories, but beautiful greenery in ...
- RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
- in note 11:
...e Mount (Matt. 5-7). Van Gogh means that Puvis de Chavannes’s recent works contain the essence of h...
- in note 10:
For Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Inter Artes et Naturam (Between art and nature), see letter 879, n. 15...
- in translation:
...allel, equivalent to those of Delacroix, Puvis de Chavannes – and that Impressionism will be the so...
... beginning to feel that one may consider Puvis de Chavannes as having the importance of Delacroix, an...
...w I assure you, I can no longer think of Puvis de Chavannes without having a presentiment that one da...
...e current human being of the south. But when Chavannes or someone else shows us this human being, th...
- 879 To Willemien van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Thursday, 5 June 1890.
- in note 15:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Inter Artes et Naturam (Between art and nature), 1890 (Musée des Beaux-Ar...
- in translation:
At the exhibition there’s a superb painting by Puvis de Chavannes.
- 893 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur Oise, Saturday, 28 June 1890.
- in note 4:
For Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’s Inter Artes et Naturam (Between art and nature), see letter 879, n....
- in translation:
... in nature there is currently all the grace of Puvis’s painting, Between art and nature. Thus yest...
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- Chronology
- in 1887:
...mber
*Together with Theo visits the Puvis de Chavannes retrospective at the Durand-Ruel gallery ...
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) French artist
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